Epidemic










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Epidemic \Ep`i*dem"ic\, Epidemical \Ep`i*dem"ic*al\, a. [L.
epidemus, Gr. ?, ?, among the people, epidemic; ? in + ?
people: cf. F. ['e]pid['e]mique. Cf. Demagogue.]

1. (Med.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large
number in a community; -- applied to a disease which,
spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time;
as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc.
See Endemic.
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2. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great
numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an
epidemic evil.
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It was the epidemical sin of the nation. --Bp.
Burnet.
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Epidemic \Ep`i*dem"ic\, n. [Cf. Epidemy.]

1. (Med.) An epidemic disease.
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2. Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as
an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of
terror.
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epidemic
adj 1: (especially of medicine) of disease or anything
resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many
individuals in a community or a population
simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" [ant:
ecdemic, endemic, endemical]
n 1: a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people
are infected at the same time
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epidemic [epidemik]
Epidemie; Seuche

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epidemic

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epidemic

Epidemie f; Seuche f
epidemic

epidemisch; seuchenartig adj
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127 Moby Thesaurus words for "epidemic":
abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ambulatory plague,
ample, aplenty, average, besetting, black death, black plague,
bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bubonic plague, catching,
cellulocutaneous plague, common, communicable, compact, contagious,
copious, current, defervescing plague, diffuse, dominant, effuse,
endemic, epidemial, epigrammatic, epiphytotic, epizootic,
exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flush, full,
galore, general, generous, glandular plague, growth,
hemorrhagic plague, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible,
infectious, infective, inoculable, larval plague, lavish, liberal,
luxuriant, many, maximal, meaty, much, murrain, normal, numerous,
opulent, ordinary, outbreak, overflowing, pandemia, pandemic, pest,
pesthole, pestiferous, pestilence, pestilential, plague,
plague spot, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty,
pneumonic plague, popular, predominant, predominating,
premonitory plague, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive,
profuse, profusive, rampant, rash, regnant, reigning, replete,
rich, rife, riotous, routine, ruling, running, running over,
scourge, septicemic plague, siderating plague, sporadic, spread,
spreading, standard, stereotyped, superabundant, taking, teeming,
tuberculosis, universal, upsurge, usual, wealthy, well-found,
well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, white plague,
wholesale, wide-ranging, widespread, zymotic



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